The Senate voted on Friday to reject a Sen-sponsored proposal. Bernie Sanders
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Seven Democrats and an independent who joins the Democrats voted against it. Voting has not yet ended, although it appeared that all senators had voted at 12:15 pm
Sens. Joe Manchin
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Thomas (Tom) Richard CarperBiden to meet with bipartisan lawmakers on infrastructure Five conclusions from the Capitol’s dramatic security listening to Democrats fearing the Senate will be the cemetery on Biden’s agenda MORE (D-Del.) E Angus King
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Coons’ vote was especially surprising, as he is one of the President biden
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The Senate voted 58 to 42 against an attempt to waive a procedural objection against the addition of the wage provision to the $ 1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill.
The overwhelming vote raises doubts as to whether Biden will be able to raise the federal minimum wage to $ 15 at any time during his first term.
Until Friday’s vote, Manchin, a powerful broker in the 50-50 Senate, was the only Senate Democrat to openly declare his opposition to a $ 15 wage standard across the country. Instead, Manchin prefers to set it at $ 11 an hour and index it to inflation.
With eight members of the Democratic bench voting against for procedural reasons, it is difficult to see Biden getting his priority so soon. Instead, he will likely have to commit to raising the federal minimum wage, which has not been raised since 2009, to below $ 15
Biden reiterated his strong support during a conference call with Senate Democrats last week and invited them to continue working on the salary increase.
“The president wants us to move forward now in relieving COVID, but he made it clear that he supports a 100 percent increase in the minimum wage,” senator. Elizabeth Warren
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Friday’s vote on the minimum wage came shortly after news that centrist Democrats had forced their leaders to accept a significant reduction in weekly unemployment benefits.
Democrats announced Friday morning that they were close to an agreement to set weekly unemployment insurance at $ 300 a week, instead of the $ 400 preferred by Biden and included in the House-approved aid deal.
In a grant to liberals, the emerging unemployment benefit agreement would exempt up to $ 10,200 in benefits received in 2020 from taxes and extend the boost to federal unemployment benefits until October 4 instead of August 29, the end date set by Chamber.
Moderate Sens. Susan Collins
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All other Senate Republicans voted in the same way.
Some Democrats have expressed concern over Sanders’ proposal to increase the wages paid by restaurant workers at a time when many restaurants are struggling to stay open during a business crash due to the pandemic.
The vote was largely symbolic after the Senate congressman decided last week that a clause that raised the minimum wage to $ 15 an hour by 2025 violated Byrd’s rule and could not be included in the aid package that Democrats plan to approve. by simple majority. special budget rules.
Proponents of the $ 15 hourly wage can take comfort in the fact that Friday’s vote was about waiving a budgetary point of objection to the amendment, rather than a direct vote up or down. low on the amendment itself – leaving the Democrats who voted no, some leeway to vote yes in the future.
As the congressman decided that the salary increase violated Byrd’s Rule, this would have prevented the entire aid package from being approved by a simple majority if it were successfully added.
But the procedural objection – which would require 60 votes to be waived – could have been supported only by Republican votes in the 50-50 Senate, indicating that centrist Democrats are sending a message.